The Mobile Photo Awards Announces Competition Winners

The Mobile Photo Awards have announced the winners of each category in this huge global photographic contest. The categories for the competition included such traditional photographic genres as Landscapes, Self-Portraits, and Street Photography as well as uniquely modern areas such as Digital Art and software enhanced Abstractions.

Life In LoFi has the complete list of winners of each category, the Honorable Mentions and more winning photographs after the jump. >>>

Indifference by Stefano Pesarelli

Dandelion Wishes by Anthony Docherty

Into the Wind by Deb Evans Braun

The Winners

Photo Categories:

Architecture/Design: Image Pic #35 by Souichi ForushoAppstracts/Graphic Art: Red Dot by Erik BeckDigital Art/Collage: The Visitation of Mr. Horatio by Robert HeroldBeach Life: Co-Winners Waiting for the Perfect Wave by Cindy Patrick and The Day After Irene by Haida NguyenPlants/Flowers: Curvaceous by Heather CraigMusic/Entertainers: Subway Singers by Erin McCannBlack & White: Indifference by Stefano PessareliWaterscapes: Tidal Impressions by Patrick ShourdsSelf-Portraits: Conflict by Emily RoseLandscapes: Into the Wind by Deb Evans BraunSunlight: One More for the Bronx by Jordan MilesFashion: Catwalk by Robin SweetWildlife/Pets: Highland Cow by Gilles PerroudPeople/Portraits: Dandelion Wishes by Anthony DochertyStreet Photography: Double Dutch Nuns by Jose Chavarry

Congratulations to all of the winners. The MPA grand prize winner will be announced the first week of January, 2012.

Awesome Sauce by Sara Tune

You, Too by Giuseppe Capozzo

The Gentleman by Cindi Hobgood

The Mobile Photo Awards have had the largest response to a paid open-call in the short history of Mobile Photography. With over 50,000 page views and 11,000 unique visitors from 114 countries, the awards had over 2200 image entries. The competition was designed to celebrate the explosive growth of cell-phone photography and art. The winning 25 entries will be part of a traveling exhibit alongside images from the jury and a select few honorable mentions. The exhibit will premiere with a three month engagement at San Francisco’s prestigious ArtHaus gallery beginning in April of 2012.

“Thanks to the advancements in lenses and image sensors for mobile phones, and the eco-system of developers who have created photo processing applications, the creativity of mobile photography knows no bounds,” said Daniel Berman, founder of the Mobile Photo Awards and a noted mobile photographer known as Reservoir_Dan. “With this competition and open gallery call, we now give mobile photographers and artists the chance to take that creativity even further and show the art world and public just how inspiring these images can be.”

The awards partnered with 12 of the most popular iPhone photo apps including Filterstorm, FX PhotoStudio, CrossProcess, ShakeItPhoto, ScratchCam, and Juxtaposer. Archival prints will be sent to the winners courtesy of FotoMoto. Keepsy will provide free photo books to winners in three categories and Life In LoFi will feature showcases for three of the winners.

Entries were judged based on originality, creativity, and adherence to the contest theme. The jury was comprised of 15 of today’s most celebrated mobile photographers and includes widely published and well-known iPhoneographers such as Aik Beng Chia, Alan Kastner, Robert-Paul Jansen, and Nettie Edwards. A complete list of the jury can be seen at mobilephotoawards.com.

Marty is a self-employed graphic designer in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex. He is an avid Rangers baseball, Chicago Cubs, Packers and Highbury Arsenal fan. In addition to capturing random moments with whatever camera is close by (usually his iPhone), his other interests include coffee, film, music, and traveling in seats 5E and 5F with his fiancé.

EXTREMELY honored to have received an Honorable Mention & to have my image displayed along with the others. The MPA crew and Dan especially are very strong advocates for this genre. What a great set of images, from the slide show to the first cut of short lists and all the winners. It's going to be VERY tough, I'm sure, to select the grand prize winner. Congrats to everyone involved!

Dave Weekes

Congratulations to all the winners!! A great job by all of the judges also, on a seemingly impossible task to choose from all of the truly excellent images that I saw shortlisted. Hats off to Dan and everyone involved on what has to be the "premiere" mobile photography contest and showcase. From the very beginning this promised to be a special contest and it has proven so. Looking forward to next year!!

Cindy Patrick

How nice to see the names attached to the images! Such an honor to be among such a fine group of artists! Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you DanIel Berman and all the MPA judges… You have done a stellar job! Looking forward with much excitement to the exhibitions!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cecilymariece/ Cecily

Congratulations Cindy!!!! I am so proud of you!!! What a way to start off 2012!!
Best wishes for the New Year!!!!!
Cecily

Shane Robinson

I am SO honored to be selected and in the company of world class artists. And I want to echo the sentiments expressed above regarding the level and professionalism and exceptional planning and execution of the competition. Kudos to Dan and the outstanding panel of judges he assembled, and much appreciation for the support and light they have shown on the incredible art being created on iPhones and iPads!

http://www.beckibecko.com Erik Beck

Very honored to be amongst such great artists! Thanks to Dan and all the judges!!

http://www.iPhoneArt.com nate park

awesome job everyone.

http://twitter.com/robertpaul @robertpaul

Great to finally see who are the artist behind the images. Congrats to all!

http://twitter.com/Gusbano @Gusbano

My honest congratulations to all the winners!
What a huge amount of powerful creative images….
Big compliments also to the fantastic #"Mobile Photo Awards" staff & jury!

Reservoir_Dan

Staff! Haha! 😉

http://www.theiphoneexpeditions.com Cindi Hobgood

Good job, Dan! Thank you for all your hard work. Happy New Year!

http://www.flickr.com/bartmcleroy Bart McLeroy

Artistically, these guys are the Michael Jordan to my… me. I'm not sure if I can ever "up" my game to their level, but I can at least try to make the local YMCA team.

http://lumilyon.blogspot.com Nettie Edwards

It was a priviledge to be a juror for this contest. Congratulations to all finalists and those who were short listed!

Hey Dan and the team! Great competition! Really well organised – especially the Oscar-like suspense towards the end as the short-listed were announced. And what a level-headed diplomat Dan is ; ) Gutted I won't be going on the road with you – but have learned for next time!

http://twitter.com/iPhotoArtist @iPhotoArtist

wonderful images submitted and so hard to narrow them down! it's been a pleasure to be a part of the process. Thank you

http://totallyradimages.blogspot.com/ Rad drew

What an honor to be recognized on a Final Short List! So much amazing work by incredibly talented, creative, photographers! Kudos to the judges; don't know how you did it! Happt New Year to all. Looking forward to another great year of sharing and learning together!

Appqueen

Congratulations to all the winners – so many from our dear IPA website. Happy New Year to all (((Hugs, AQ))).

http://www.nuwomb.com Scott Webb

I am blown away! I wish I had known about this before before learning about it at the iPhoneography Class on CreativeLive. Mind you the architecture shot here is freaking insanely perfect! In AWE! These are mindblowing! Great to see what people are creating with mobile photography.

About Life In LoFi

Since 2009, Life In LoFi is one of the oldest and most-respected blogs about iPhoneography (iPhone photography) and capturing the world in digital lo-fi. Featuring iPhone photo news, showcases, app reviews, and the occasional musings of iPhoneographer Marty Yawnick.